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Tag Archives: Poppies
A Week of Flowers: Day 6 – 27/11/2020
Continuing to day six of Cathy’s (Words and Herbs) uplifting flower-sharing week … and hopefully spreading a little cheer round the web. Today I am thinking that you can’t beat poppies: Click the link to enjoy more beautiful blooms.
Wordless Wednesday – Bees love poppies
Posted in Bees, Flowers
Tagged Gardening, honey bees, papaver somniferum, Photography, pollinators, Poppies
9 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Astronauts!
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Nature, Wordless
Tagged alliums, Borage, Bumblebees, Gardening, honey bees, Phlomis, Photography, Poppies, Wildlife
6 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Making a beeline for the poppies
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, honey bees, oriental poppies, Papaver rhoeas, Photography, Poppies
13 Comments
Six on Saturday – There aren’t enough hours in the day …
25/05/2019 I’ve been fighting off a virus this week and while I have finally enough strength to wield a fork and spade again, it feels as though everything is rushing away from me. I am desperately playing catch up with … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday – Ice skating to Ravel’s Bolero
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Honey bee, Horticulture, Hoverfly, Leaf-cutter bee, opium poppies, Photography, Poppies
13 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Cornfield poppies
Posted in Wildflowers, Wordless
Tagged agriculture, Common poppy, cornfield, countryside, Gardening, nature, Papaver rhoeas, Photography, Poppies
15 Comments
Remembrance Sunday
“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough’s army, than to think they’d … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday – The Seed Bank
Posted in Flowers, Nature, The home garden, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Photography, pollen beetles, Poppies, Seed heads
9 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – PoP! goes my heart *
* From the Hugh Grant/ Drew Barrymore rom com ‘Music and Lyrics’ – seemed like an appropriate reaction to these glorious poppies!
Posted in Flowers, The home garden, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Hugh Grant, Papaver orientale, perennials, Photography, Poppies, red
17 Comments
